Collar-supporter.



' T. J. BROWNING. COLLAR SUPPORTER. APPLIUATION FILED FEBiZ, 1914.

1,1 1 1 ,359, 4 Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

WITNESSES. l/V VE )Y T 01? Kil /1 6 Brawn/517 ATTORNEY.

a citizen. of the United States,

CQL LAIt- SUPPORTER,

T all whom a om-em.- l i; 1

Be it known that I, TnJLrE J. BROWNING, residing at Philadelphia,county. ofPhiladelphia, and

, State. of Pennsylvania, haverinvented anew and useful Improvement :inCollar supporters," of which'the' following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, referencebeing had toi the accompanying drawings, whichform apart ofthisspecificationi 1 The objectofminy invention isatoprovide jectingfrom the frame member at intervals. The object oftheinvention is to 'providea supporter of this type thatwwillbe'pra'ctical to apply either to a stock collar that binds go W11; r n.5 .1 "h/lore specifically, the objects of the in V H vention' are .tocheapen :a'nd. facilitatezthe around, or through an :arc is, given adouble twist v around or through an theneclr closely or to the soft,high :ruching. loosely encircling the: neck and terminating at anydesired place on the front of/the manufacture ofthe supporter and toenable it to bereadily altered in size"and;;shape either by way ofincreasing or diminishing the length of the frame member or byeinde-Ependently increasing or decreasing the.

height of any of the upright arms,;thereby adap ing the supporter to.collars, of

size and shape. '1 r in constructing my -supporter a wire 10f lindefinite length and corrugate' or awave like appearance from end toend. IJAt intervalsthis'wire is bentat right angles to. "itsmain.;directi0n of extension nd; then back again. :The two opposingsections of wire of which each form-maintaining arm is composed are sodisposed that the inwardly extending rounded angles of thesections areon the same level, while at the junction of each arn and the base orframe membenthe karm isjtwisted relatively to the frame member eitheronce (that is, either lialfj -wa'y of 180 degrees) or (that iscompletely arc of" 360. degrees), in order to make the connectionbetween the frame member and arm'rigid and permanent. The supporter maybe sewedto the. collar or rufliingf at the extremefendsof the" arms orat anyone ofthe fluted sectionsof an arm. I prov de special sewingmembers at the upper free endsof the arms, by form:

' their junction with the I :understood I'liave shown an embodiment ofthe same in the accompanying drawings, in

which 3 1 flute the same uniformly so that it presents i I Specificationof Letters Patent. Paten ljed Sept, 1914, ApplicationfiledI'ebruary2,1914. -Seria1 No. 815,892. 1

ing loopstherein. The sewing loopsatthe upper. end of an arm may,beliconveniently formed of two wave lengths of the wire or of a singlewave length and inay, if desired, be turned relatively to the remainderof the arm either half way around (a single twist) or completely around;(a double twist) in order topclose the loop. lThe'abutting inward bondsof two opposing waved or fluted sections afford a desirable Y locationfor the OFFICE TiLL IE .1. ianow v-iiv or riirLnnnLriiIli,'rianivsYLvAni'A.

stitches in sewing, as it prevents the collar or lace from. sliding downthe supporting arms in case the end stitches stretch, or strain awayfrom the end sewing member. I prefer to connect the twoI-sections of theY I upright arm at the base ofv the loop and at framefmember by a doubletwist, as shown in the .tliird upright 1 arm from the left in Fig. inorder to make these connections. as rigid and permanent as possible.

a Asupporter soconstructed inay be readily lengthened or shortenedeither 111 the frame member between fadJacentarms, or in the.

,arms themselves; lengthening being effected 1 by pulling out the wireto make the waves jmore shallow,and shortening being effected bycompressingthe wire in the general diji'ection of its extension bydeepening the waves. I

In order that my invention may be readily Figure -1- is a perspectiveview of a collar supporter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a portion;of a wire blank from which the supporter is formed. Fig. 3 is a, detailview of a;portion of a collar. supporter in which certain parts ofznthesame are extended or contracted. 1

I Itwillbe observedgthat the frame member a and the arms 6, b, etc.,arenadeof a single piece of uniformly corrugated wire,

thatthe ltwo sections of which eacliarm is composed have their waves "soarranged that the inwardly extendingangles as of opposite sections areabout on the same level and nearly touch each other, thus formingin'each arm a ser es of approximately square spaces or diamonds y whosesides extend at an angle of forty five degrees, more or less,

to the general direction of extension of the a arm. This constructiongives great rigidity to the .arm and yet permits itto bereadilylengthened 'or shortened. 1 I

I ,i readily and neatly accomplished by hand by Copies'of this patentmay be obtained for y p I Washington, 11.0.? 1

' part-'o'fthe wire forming thefi'ame member.

the loop pat the upper end of arm d, are turned relatively to theremainder of the arm to securely close thelower edge otthe'loop has twoopposing F waves pressed out fiat,

,1 i tied.

In Fig. 3, I have shown several of the arms as of slightly differentspecific construction. The arms I) and 0 are turned half way aroundrelatively to the part of the wire forming the frame member a, while thearm (Z turned completely around relatively to the The upper end of thearm '2) is formed of two 1 wave lengths of wire, thus forming a doubleloop m providing a central depression to re.- ceiye "the sewing thread.Theupper end of each of the arms c'and d is formed-of a single wavelength of wire, thus forming .a small loop forengagelnent with thethread. The loop 0 at the upperend of arm [1, and

and impart to it greater permanence and rigidity. This, however, is notnecessary,. the loop n at the. upper endot armc, as well as the doubleloop on at, the upper end of armb, being'unclosed except toxthe extentto which the opposing members of the arm approach actualcontiguity.

\ To illustrate the capacity of the supporter for being altered in'size,I have shown, in Fig. 3, a shortened section i and an extended section jof the frame member. I have shown, also, the vertical arm I) of Fig-'3shortened, and a vertical arm d, lengthened. Vith the proper kind ofwire this may be an entirely unskilled person. Still another methodoflengthening a vertical arm is shown in Fig. 3, in which the verticalarm d as shown at r, the remaining waves being unaltered, This means ofextending the length of a member has theadvantage of developing anotherstyle or form of collar support without marring its appearance oratl'ecting the other desirablefeatures speci- "I he supporter is thuscapable of being made of a single piec'e'of wire of uniform cont-ourthroughout its entire length; and while of course, capable of beingformed, in the first instance, into a supporter adapted to a collar ofgiven shape and size, may be readily reshaped to adapt it to a collar ofa widely different shape and size. It is thus unnecessary for the'us'rto select asupporter I precisely adaptedto a given-- collar, but asupporter approximating the size and shape desired may be selected andthen may be" easily reshaped to suit the collar.

Having now tullydescribed my invention, what I claim and desire toprotect by-jLet-I '1. A supporter for collars comprising a singleneck-encircling frame member andupters Patentisz' right arms, composed(its single lengthbf wire of wave tormlthrougho'ut its length andextending successively .circumferenti'ally to form a section:of theencircling base inember, thence upward andndownward to form an uprightform-maintainingwarm, thence circiumterent-ially and upward and down-Ward ashetore, and so on; therwave-lengths being short relativelyto thelength-.ofeach upright arm and circumferential; section so as to providea number of wave lengths con tiguous one towthe other in each arm andsection, the two sections of each upright arm being twisted upon eachother at the ;junc.-.

encirclingmember.

'tion between the same and theintegral neck A; supporter for collarsComprising a;

single P neck-encircling frame member and upright arms, the same.compos'edof a single length of wire extending successivelyc1rcumferentially to forma part ofthe eneir- I "cling framemember,thence: upward I and downwardto form two separate opposing sectionsconstituting an upright form main-. V

taining arm thence circumferentially and upward and downward asbetore,and so. on, the upward and downward sections; being. each of lregularwave form and the wave llengths being short relatively to-thfej lengthof the upright arms so as to provide a 'num-..

ber of wave lengths in each of said sections, the-:itwo sections of'anarnrnear'their upper ends being twisted upon each other'to form aterminal thread engaging loop. ln testimony of whi h invention, I havehereunto setmyhand, at Philadelphia, on-

this 30th-day of January, 1914. 7.; as

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